Current Exhibition

Denizens

06.09.2019 - 26.10.2019

Leyla Gediz

Leylâ Gediz was born in Istanbul in 1974. She lives and works in Lisbon where she relocated two years ago.

She completed her MA in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College (London) and a BA in Fine Art (Painting) at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (London). She has had solo exhibitions in Istanbul, Los Angeles, Zurich, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

Gediz occupies an important place in Turkey for her groundbreaking research on painting as a contemporary practice. Her work has been widely exhibited and is included in prestigious public and private collections, such as Istanbul Modern, Arter (Istanbul), ARCO Foundation (Spain) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven).